Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-09-16

loneliness especially OF water. ! mean.
There are little rivulets running here
and there over little falls. with pen
dant boughs above them. and stones
shining under their shallow depths.
As the visitor stands and looks
through the trees. the rapids glitter
before him and then hide themselves
behind islands. They glitter and
sparkle in far distances under the
bright foliage till the remembrance is
lost and one knows not which way they
run.
Having mounted the hill on the
Canada side you will walk on toward
the falls As | have said before, you
will from this side look directly into
the full circle of the upper cataract.
while you will have before you at your
left hand the whole expanse of the
lesser fall For those who desire to
see all al a glance. who wish TO COM
prise the whole with their eyes, and to
leave nothing to be guessed, nothing
to be surmised, this no doubt, is the
best point Of view.
You will be covered W tn spray AS
you walk up to the ledge Of rocks, but
| do not think that the spray will hurt
you. If man gets wet through going
TO his daily work, cold. catarrh, cough
and all their attendant evils may be eX-
pectcd but these maladies usually spare
the tourist. Change of air. plenty of
air, excellence of air and increased
exercise make these things powerless.
| should therefore bid YOU to disregard
the spray. If, however you are your
self of a different opinion, you may hire
suit of oi-cloth clothes for, | believe.
quarter of a dollar They are nasty,
of course. and have this further disad-
vantage, that you become much more
wet having them on than you would be
without them
Here, on this side, You walk TO the
very edge of the cataract, and if your
tread be steady and your legs firm.
you dip your feet into the water ex-
actly at the spot where the thin out
side margin of the current reaches the
rocky edge and jumps to join the mass
of the fail. The bed of white foam be-
meath is certainly seen better here than
elsewhere. and the green curve of the
water is as bright here rs when seen
from the wooden rail across. But,
nevertheless, say again that that
wooden rail is on the point from
whence Niagara may be best seen
Alright.
Close TO the cataract, exactly at the
spot from whence IN former days the
Table Rock used to project from the
land over the boiling cladron below.
there is now shaft down which you
will descend to the level of the river,
and pass between the rock and the
torrent This Table Rock broke away
from the cliff and fell as up the whole
course of the river the seeding rocks
have split and fallen from time to time
through countless years, and will CON
tnue to do until the bed of the upper
lake is reached You will decend this
shaft. taking to yourself "a not taking
to yourself suit of oil-clothes, as you
may think best.
In the spot to which ! allude the
visitor stands on a broad safe path
made of shingles, between the rock
over which the water rushes and the
rushing water. He will 90 in so far
that the spray rising back from the bed
OF the torrent does not incommode him.
With this exception, the further he can
go in the better; but circumstances W IL
cearly show him the spot to which he
should advance. Unless the water be
driven IN by very strong wind, five
wards makes the difference between a
comparatively dry coat and an absolute
wet one. And then let him stand with
his back to the entrance. thus hiding
the last q MINER of the expiring day.
SO standing be will look up among the
falling waters. or down into the deep
misty pit, from which they rea>ceni IN
almost as palpable bulk. The rock
will be at his right hand, high and hard
and dark and straight, like the wall of
some huge cavern, such a. children
enter in their dreams. For the hrsl
five minutes he will be looking. but at
the waters OF a cataract, at the waters
indeed. OF such cataract as we know
no other, and at their interior curve
which elsewhere we cannot see. But
by-and-by all this will change. He
will no longer be on a IA ngly path
beneath a waterfall; but that feeling
of cavern will grow upon him, Of a
cavern deep. below roaring seas, III
which the waves are there, though
they do not enter in upon him; or,
rather. not the waves. but the very
bowels of the ocean. He Il EEL n
though the floods surrounded IN.
coming and going with their wild